Rice Eclipse
Rice Eclipse is Rice University's student rocketry team, founded in 2014 and grown to more than 50 undergraduate and graduate members. It designs and fabricates launch vehicles, hybrid and liquid-engine work, avionics hardware and software, payloads, and flight-test systems for intercollegiate rocketry competitions. Rice sources document Archimedes' 26,000-foot 2024 first-place 30K SRAD Hybrid result, 2025 IREC launches and recovered payloads, and continuing Proxima, Titan II, Prometheus, and dual-stage development; planned future flights are not treated as completed results.
Identity
- Field
- Hybrid and liquid rocket propulsion, launch vehicles, avionics, payloads, testing, flight operations, and rocketry competitions
- Name
- Rice Eclipse
- Region
- NA
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- Rice Eclipse is Rice University's student rocketry team, founded in 2014 and grown to more than 50 undergraduate and graduate members. It designs and fabricates launch vehicles, hybrid and liquid-engine work, avionics hardware and software, payloads, and flight-test systems for intercollegiate rocketry competitions. Rice sources document Archimedes' 26,000-foot 2024 first-place 30K SRAD Hybrid result, 2025 IREC launches and recovered payloads, and continuing Proxima, Titan II, Prometheus, and dual-stage development; planned future flights are not treated as completed results.
- Latitude
- 29.720319
- Location
- Longitude
- -95.398555
- University
Links
- Website
- https://eclipse.rice.edu/